NOTES for Isa 26:7-9
The Lord calls all those who are struggling and hurting to come to Him. These words are about all of us, as Alexander Blok would later write, "about all who are weary in a foreign land, about all the ships that have gone to sea, about all who have forgotten their joy." We are called to Himself by a caring God, the Father, in whose image and likeness we were created and who is hurt when we hurt. We are called to Himself by God, who knows what suffering and pain are, by Christ, who passed through more suffering than each of us and showed that even beyond death there is a breakthrough into Resurrection. The Holy Spirit awaits meeting us, God who gives rest and strength to hope and believe that the breakthrough will certainly come...
The Lord perhaps has no stronger desire than for His children to come to Him so that He can pour out all His love on them. He wants to remove our burdens from us, everything that prevents our gaze from being constantly turned toward Him, and in exchange to give us something far more precious. Something that has many names, but the main one, probably, is Love. This is the good yoke and the light burden of which He speaks. And at the same time, as Christ Himself showed us, His burden is the Cross... The Cross and the breakthrough into Resurrection: this is the real life that God offers us.